The role of seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, salt marshes and reed beds as nursery areas and food sources for fishes in estuaries

AK Whitfield - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2017 - Springer
Each year millions of larval and 0+ juvenile fishes are recruited into estuarine fish
populations around the world. For several decades the roles of littoral aquatic and emergent …

Eutrophication of Chesapeake Bay: historical trends and ecological interactions

WM Kemp, WR Boynton, JE Adolf, DF Boesch… - … ecology progress series, 2005 - int-res.com
This review provides an integrated synthesis with timelines and evaluations of ecological
responses to eutrophication in Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the USA. Analyses of …

Estimating global “blue carbon” emissions from conversion and degradation of vegetated coastal ecosystems

L Pendleton, DC Donato, BC Murray, S Crooks… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Recent attention has focused on the high rates of annual carbon sequestration in vegetated
coastal ecosystems—marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses—that may be lost with habitat …

Seagrass ecosystems as a globally significant carbon stock

JW Fourqurean, CM Duarte, H Kennedy, N Marbà… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
The protection of organic carbon stored in forests is considered as an important method for
mitigating climate change. Like terrestrial ecosystems, coastal ecosystems store large …

Extinction risk assessment of the world's seagrass species

FT Short, B Polidoro, SR Livingstone… - Biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
Seagrasses, a functional group of marine flowering plants rooted in the world's coastal
oceans, support marine food webs and provide essential habitat for many coastal species …

A global crisis for seagrass ecosystems

RJ Orth, TJB Carruthers, WC Dennison, CM Duarte… - Bioscience, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Seagrasses, marine flowering plants, have a long evolutionary history but are now
challenged with rapid environmental changes as a result of coastal human population …

The identification, conservation, and management of estuarine and marine nurseries for fish and invertebrates: a better understanding of the habitats that serve as …

MW Beck, KL Heck, KW Able, DL Childers… - Bioscience, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Articles and cited as justification for the protection and conservation of these areas.
Nonetheless, the nursery-role concept has rarely been stated clearly, even in papers that …

[引用][C] Seagrass Ecology

MA Hemminga - 2000 - books.google.com
Seagrasses occur in coastal zones throughout the world in the areas of marine habitats that
are most heavily influenced by humans. Despite a growing awareness of the importance of …

[图书][B] Trophic cascades: predators, prey, and the changing dynamics of nature

J Terborgh, JA Estes - 2013 - books.google.com
Trophic cascades—the top-down regulation of ecosystems by predators—are an essential
aspect of ecosystem function and well-being. Trophic cascades are often drastically …

The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems

S Jennings, MJ Kaiser - Advances in marine biology, 1998 - Elsevier
We review the effects of fishing on benthic fauna, habitat, diversity, community structure and
trophic interactions in tropical, temperate and polar marine environments and consider …